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Scott Long has announced the second FreeBSD 5.2 release candidate:
"FreeBSD 5.2-RC2 is available for i386, pc98, alpha, and sparc64. This fixes a number of glaring bugs in RC1, chiefly the problem that many users experienced with panics during install and dynamic library problems in the 'fixit' environment. It also contains a complete set of packages on disc1, including KDE and Gnome desktop environments. I'm hoping for this to be the final RC before the release in the first week of January, so please go out and have fun with it over the holidays. Special thanks to Jeff Roberson, Doug White, John Baldwin, and many others for working hard to fix the bugs in RC1."
From: Scott Long [email blocked] To: freebsd-current Subject: FreeBSD 5.2-RC2 available Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2003 20:05:58 -0700 (MST) All, FreeBSD 5.2-RC2 is available for i386, pc98, alpha, and sparc64. This fixes a number of glaring bugs in RC1, chiefly the problem that many users experienced with panics during install and dynamic library problems in the 'fixit' environment. It also contains a complete set of packages on disc1, including KDE and Gnome desktop environments. I'm hoping for this to be the final RC before the release in the first week of January, so please go out and have fun with it over the holidays. Special thanks to Jeff Roberson, Doug White, John Baldwin, and many others for working hard to fix the bugs in RC1. Thanks, The Release Engineering Team
SATA
What is the status of SATA support in FreeBSD 5.*? Any support for SATA raid controllers?
Re: SATA
SATA is supported by the new ATA driver (ATAng) which was committed in August 2003 and mfc'd into -STABLE a little later: I think it's even supported in FreeBSD 4.9, released in October. I don't know how extensive or well-tested the support is.
5.2 does not support Intel IC
5.2 does not support Intel ICH5 SATA150 RAID - that's what I can say. Don't know about other SATA RAID controllers. You can check it in Hardware Notes for 5.2-RC2.
yeh
I'm typing this on 5.2-RC2, you're right. Fortunately I have an extra 80 gig ATA.
Another question. RELEASE's of 4.* are snapshots of 4.*-STABLE, correct? But if I recall correctly, there is no 5.*-STABLE yet, so where are the 5.*-RELEASE's coming from? Relatively stable snapshots of CURRENT? What target do I give cvsup to get the source tree to get 5.* RELEASE/RC?
Thanks!
track "stable" 5-branch
Place *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_5_x in /etc/make.conf. Replace x with 2 if you wish to track the "frozen" 5.2-branch. This will be as stable as 5 can be. For my part, 5 have performed very well, and at least as stable as 4.
regards Claus
one correction
You want this in your cvsup config file, not make.conf. After 5.3R, 5-STABLE will be branched.
one more thing
If you don't want to use cvsup, snapshots are available at http://snapshots.jp.freebsd.org
Yes. 5.*-RELEASEs are snapsho
Yes. 5.*-RELEASEs are snapshots of -CURRENT now.
They say 5-STABLE will be branched after 5.3-RELEASE.
Logicial Drive Install
Hi All,
Is there any chance to get FreeBSD installed on a logicial drive as I have all of the big primary drives used and would like to go ahead with FreeBSD? (Is it somehow working as GNU/Linux with a small 50MB boot partition?)
Thanks, Jan
extended partitions
You can mount/install in extended partitions as /dev/ad0s5 (and numbers higher than 5). However, you'll have to use grub to be able to boot it. Test it out with your setup and see what happens!
RC2 Leaves a bad taste
If they release it from the existing RELENG_5_2 as of Dec 30, I will be sorry to say that I will not use FreeBSD anymore, for a whole while.
There are more malfunctions (that haven't been there in 5.1-RELEASE) that they were in the early 3.x releases.
It's no fun.
re: RC2 Leaves a bad taste
Have you reported them? The only way to get them is to tell people on the current mailing list.